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Del.icio.us links for August 26, 2006

August 26th, 2006 @ 4:17 am by Rich | Share This | No comments yet
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Rich's Delicious LinksThese are a few of the things I've recently found interesting, but don't have the time to properly blog on. I don't necessarily like or agree with the links here, I just think they're interesting. And just in case you do, too, enjoy.

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  • Titled "To hell and back", from Dateline NBC. Carlton now peaches that everybody gets a free pass to Heaven--everybody. Says Pearson: "I was resentful of God. See, if you fear God the way we’re taught to fear Him, you’ll serve

Donald E. Westlake’s The Axe

August 19th, 2005 @ 3:33 am by Rich | Share This | 2 comments
Filed under: Fiction, Bookshelf

Donald E. Westlake: The Axe
Read: June 6, 1998

I'm harboring an armed and dangerous man,
a merciless killer, a monster, and he's inside me.

The AxThis is a disturbing book, and it's haunted me for the days since I first read it. I'm a veteran fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, murder & suspense reader, so there isn't much that'll make me put a book down in the middle of a page, take a deep breath, exhale and close my eyes. This book did.

Burke Devore is a desperate, angry man, deeply frightened at the prospect of personal and professional worthlessness now that he's been handed the pink slip and "chopped" from middle management at the plant he gave twenty-plus years of his life to.

I've always imagined life is a series of identity crises punctuated by moments



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